There is no logic like the logic of the heart.
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.
Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.